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Plot

Sam and Gibby open a secret restaurant named Gibby's in the basement at their school. Bully Billy Boots, who just got out of juvie, harasses and irritates Gibby by constantly asking him to take off his shirt. Sam tries to diffuse

Gibby's!!

the situation by sending Gibby to go on a walk and trying to talk to Billy, but when Gibby returns later, Billy attacks him and Sam beats up Billy with a Butter sock. Later on, Billy tells Mr. Howard about the restaurant and hopes it gets shut down. Even though Principal Franklin, one of Gibby's customers himself, agrees that the restaurant violates school rules, he allows Sam and Gibby to keep running it in secret and as soon as Mr. Howard is out of earshot.

Subplot

After their computer and TV have been stolen, Spencer starts developing a security robot. At first, he builds one that blinds intruders, but takes it apart after it blinds Carly. He then makes one that shoots corn at intruders, but it malfunctions and attacks Carly, Freddie and Spencer. They try to have it focus on Mrs. Benson and unplug it, but Spencer doesn't manage to pull the plug out of the outlet before the machine runs out of corn, so Mrs. Benson is heavily pelted with corn.

Trivia

The working title for this episode was iOwn a Restaurant.

This episode's plot is a parody of the movie Goodfellas.

In a reply to a fan Jennette tweeted that, "favorite episode is itwins or ipie or iapril fools or iown a restaurant [working title]. changes all the time tho".[3]

Spencer saying "That's not supposed to happen" when his invention malfunctions is a possible reference to the show Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!. The character in that show, Widget, always says "That's not supposed to happen" when her inventions malfunction.

The voice of Spencer's corn kernel intruder prevention system is Macintosh Alex.

A casting sheet for this episode was released before production began, and according to it, it calls for various extras in a cafeteria scene, such as Billy Boots, Azeez, Mark, and Roger to name a couple extras.

Billy Boots played by Chase Austin [4] (a juvenile delinquent and thug in high school)

Azeez (an adult man from an unidentified country and is untrustworthy)

Nickelodeon made a special for the week that aired this episode, called "Gimme Some Gibby!" in which they transmitted episodes through all the week whose plots revolved around Gibby.

This is the fourth appearance of the Butter Sock (after iTake on Dingo, iParty with Victorious and iStill Psycho, though it was mentioned in iGo One Direction), which was originally going to be filled with quarters, yet beating people with quarters was too violent for Nickelodeon, so Dan Schneider changed it to a sock full of butter.

For this episode only, several of the decorative ceramic items that normally sit on shelves in the kitchen of the Shay apartment, such as the "Cookie Time" cookie jar, have been substituted with other items such as wine glasses. This is presumably so that cheaper items may be shattered by the popcorn machine gun. The original ceramic items have been returned to their usual positions for subsequent episodes.

Goofs

In the scene where the iCarly gang is seated around a table in the restaurant and Gibby explains they are

Spicy!!!

sitting in his "dream" there are multiple goofs in quick succession. First, the glass shaker containing the hot pepper flakes moves around on the table several times. Then as Sam is telling Gibby that her cousin Dominic's sister-in-law's father can provide restaurant supplies, after a change in camera angle the glass that Gibby had been drinking from suddenly jumps from the table into his hand. Then when Carly grabs the flower vase to try and drink water to assuage the burning in her mouth she knocks the pepper shaker over, but then it stands up by itself and again moves to different positions on the table. Then as Carly starts running around she grabs Gibby's glass, then throws it down and appears to roll off the table, then it suddenly reappears on the table then disappears again.

During the last scene when Billy Boots brings Mr. Howard downstairs to see the restaurant, on a stove in the corner in the background is a large pot with lots of water vapour rising from it. After Mr. Howard and Billy leave and Principal Franklin comes over to Gibby and Sam and they are discussing whether or not they have to close the restaurant, there is a shot in which there is no water vapour rising from the pot, then in the next shot there is water vapour rising from the pot again.

It would not be possible for someone to break in to an apartment on the 8th floor. So that's means nothing can get stolen there.

Quotes

Freddie:[quickly] Is it too late for you to love me?Carly:[looks at him in surprise] What?Freddie: Nothing.Carly: [smirks] Did you just say--Freddie:[scoffs] No!

Freddie: Where is he?Sam: In the basement.Carly: This school doesn't have a basement.Sam: That's what I thought. [Sam urges them to follow her] Come. Come with me.[Freddie and Carly look at each other]

Gibby: Welcome...Carly: To what?Gibby: To my dream.Freddie: Your dream?Gibby: As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to have my own restaurant.

Carly:[To Gibby] You can't open a restaurant in the school basement!Sam: Why not? It's got a sink, electric and rat poop. Everything a restaurant needs.

Freddie: Yeah?Sam: You gotta new little crush on her? [points up at Carly's direction]Freddie: What? Psh no.. [scoffs and looks down and then looks at her to see her reaction]Sam: Well go.Freddie: Bye. [walks away and goes upstairs]Sam: [looks disappointed or weirded out; uncomfortable]

Carly: [facing the wrong way from Spencer] Listen, you disable that stupid alarm right now!Freddie: [turns her the right way gently] Carly he's... he's that way.Carly: Disable that stupid alarm right now!

Gibby: Where else am I gonna open up a restaurant? I can't do it on the roof! I'd be visible to helicopters!

Carly:

Gibby's!

[walking with Freddie, asking Gibby] What have you done?

Gibby: I have opened... [in his usual Gibby-like manner, gesturing to the sign] Gibby's!